Enchanted Orbs

A fast Arduino / Gameduino based Magical Drop clone, played with an NES controller!

Please refer to this blog article for more detail.

Components

• A Gameduino 1 shield.
• An Arduino Mega 2560.
• A classic NES controller.
• A breadboard and some wires.

Wiring

For reference purposes, here is a fritzing diagram:

In the layout above, the NES Controller is attached through breadboard pins A10-A15:

Breadboard	NES Controller
A10	Clock
A11	Latch
A12	Data1
A13	Data2	(optional, unused)
A14	+5V
A15	GND

Font and Art Credits

I used the following fonts:

• Pete Klassen Ringbearer
• PressStart2P
• Zingot Games Bitmap Font Pack

and the following art (all from opengameart.org):

• Title Screen Background Art
• Main Hero Character
• Game Screen Play Field Border
• Orbs